Stand for cinematographic and photographic view taking apparatus



April 17, 1928. 1,666,848

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fnz/enfor Patented Apr. 17, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDRE LEON VICTOR CLEMENT DEBBIE, or PARIS, FRANCE.

Application filed September 20, 1926, Serial No. 136,668, and in France December 4, 1925.

The usual stands for cinematographic and photographic view taking apparatus or for geodesical apparatus and such like comprise a platform supported by a certain number of pivotally mounted legs (generally three) the length of which is generally adjustable.

The best stands used up till now are generally provided with forked legs, the forks of each leg being secured to two points comparatively near to each other and never to two opposite points with reference to the center of the platform. The result of such a construction is that the stand is not steady inasmuch as each leg is secured sideways and is attached only to a small part of the periphery of the platform.

My invention has for its object a stand which avoids this drawback. It is characterized by the fact that the parts along which the ends of the fork of each leg are secured to the platform are at two opposite ends of a diameter of-the platform.

On appended drawings: 7

Figs. 1 and 2 give diagrammatically and by way of example a form of execution of my improved stand, Fig. 1 being a plan view and Fig. 2 a perspective view thereof.

The platform 4 has the shape of a regular polygon having an even number of sides, of a dodecagon, for instance as shown on the drawing, the center being at 5. The legs 6 the tops of which are forked are pivotally secured to two opposite sides of the polygon and can be held tightly in the desired posi tion by means of wing nuts 7 screwed on to the threaded spindles 8 around which the extremities of the forks are adapted to pivot.

unequally spaced from the centers.

What I claim is:

graphic apparatus and the like comprising a platform, a number of legs and a fork ending each leg, the two ends of each fork being secured tothe platform at two points the line connecting which passes through the center of the platform.

2. Stand for cinematographic and photographic apparatus and the like comprising 1. Stand for cinematographic and photo- I I a platform having the shape of a polygon of an even number of sides, a number of legs and a fork ending each leg, the two ends of each fork being secured to two opposite sides of the polygonal platform at two points the line connecting which passes through the center of the platform.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ANDRE LEON VICTOR CLEMENT DEBRIE. 

